The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-12

JAMES BELLS large planning mill at Olin,
Ill, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, e40,1 30; insurance, $4,000.
FRANK HALL, . lawyer OF Kansas City,
who was visiting friends in Quincy, Ill,
recently, was drowned while bathing in
the river. The body was recovered and
sent to Kansas City.
The Armstrong furniture factory and
other buildings were burned at Evansville,
Ind, recently. Loss, $780, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
THY Illinois Live Stock Commissioners
state that all danger from pleuropneumo-
mia in Cook County has passed. They ask
Governor Oglesby to ct once take measures
for the removal Of the quarantine restric-
lions now in force in various States ana
Territories against Illinois.
TIE drought has been terrible in the Vi
cnity Of Centraiia, Ill. Crops have been
nearly ruined and damage has been done
by fires
AN Indian Territory special says that
Mayes has been chosen Chief Of the Cher
okee Nation over Bunch by q small major
ity joel B. Mayes is onequarter Cherokee
and he was Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of the Cherokee Nation for term OF
years.
The saw mill of John g. Owen burned ct
East Saginaw, Mich, recently. Loss, $751;
coo; insurance, $6S, 100
The big wheat deal collapsed at San
Francisco on the 81.
TWELVE men were killed by falling walls
Of the burned St. Anthony elevator at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 3rd. The men
were engaged in clearing away the debris
at the time.
HUGH N. BROOKS, alias Maxwell, the
convicted murderer OF Preller at ST. Louis,
has had stay Of execution granted by
Justice Miller, of the United States Su-
prone Court The argument will come be.
fore the court in October.
TIE two children Of Mrs. Almyra Wilson
were instantly killed and Mrs. Wilson her
self seriously injured by being run over by
Chicago. Milwaukee Il st. Paul engine at
the Wood street crossing, Chicago, on the
9Th.
SEVEN cases of Texas fever are reported
among the cattle in the vicinity Of Lenox,
Ill.
A BEER kettle in Rahr's brewery at Green
Bay, Wis, exploded the other night, scald-
ing seven men. six of whom died. The ket-
tie held seventy barrels Of boiling water
which poured over tho unfortunate men,
literally cooking their flesh.
The Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce
has teleEraphcd President and Mrs. Cleve-
land an invitation to visit their city in the
fall.
CLosR estimates as to losses inflicted on
the wheat clique by the collapse Of the
San Francisco corner make them between
s., OOQOO0 and e, 0OO, 900, in addition to which
tho clique was holding and paying storage
on enormous quantities of wheat.
WILLIAM HoGG WooLsLEY MARKHAM, the
British naval officer arrested some days
ago at Kansas City charged with forgeries
while attached to the service and taken
to Chicago, will be returned to the scene Of
his crime.
SOUTHERN Wisconsin on the 9th was in
an extremely parched condition, with fires
threatening what little was left to the
farmers.
By the upsetting Of boat near Council
Bluffs, Iowa, on the 4th, five persons were
drowned. The accident occurred in a
squall, those who were saved clinging to
the canopy of the boat until rescued.
The Oregon salmon catch and canning
this year will only be about seventy-five
per cent. Of last years record and half Of
| what it was in 1854
A PROMINENT Chicago gentleman says
that he met McGarigle in Quebec. A
man supposed to be McGarigle, 1t was said,
| took passage at Quebec on y sailing vessel
bound for Gibraltar, passing himself OF rs
an invalid, although it was well known that
he was in perfect health.
MILLBRooK, the county seat Of Graham
County, Kan, was almost destroyed by a
hurricane on the night of the 4th. A boy
was killed and twenty-five other persons
were injured. The towns Of Hill City and
Piainville were also damaged. the storm
extending along the Solomon valley.
THE trial of the Chicago boodlers ended
in conviction on the 5th. Most of the de-
PENDANTS received sentences Of two years.
Imprisonment, the others being fined u COZ
| each.